Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue, left to rue the British summerTim Hall/Redferns/Getty

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Concert organisers have given up on a performance by Rick AstleyPeter Still/Redferns/Getty

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Sonia's heroic comeback to an outdoor audience of thousands will not be happeningJulian Barton/All Action General/PA Photos

James Jackson

Published at 12:01AM, July 11 2012

Relentless rain has forced one of the summer’s biggest pop concerts to be
cancelled hours before it was due to begin. Thousands who had bought tickets
for The PWL Hit Factory Live in Hyde Park were left cursing the weather as
the waterlogged venue was ruled unsafe yesterday.

The concert was to take place tonight, three days after the Wireless Festival
on the same site left the ground a quagmire. The line-up would have featured
a reunion between Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan more than two decades
after the pair topped the charts with Especially For You.